Applications from European Union students rose 1.8% on last year's figures, and despite changes to visa rules for overseas students their applications were up 5.1% to 10, 117.

BBC: Record numbers apply to competitive university courses

The tougher rules will include a requirement for students to be able to speak English.

BBC: Tighter rules for UK student visas

Even more important is Mr Barak's agreement with the ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism, on new rules for the military conscription of students at yeshivas, or Talmudic colleges.

ECONOMIST: Israel

About every state high school athletic association has rules regulating the recruitment of tween and teen students for the purpose of athletics.

FORBES: Indiana Warns 10-Year-Olds: Being Recruited Now Means No High School Sports Later

Once a connection is made, all communication happens outside of beRecruited's walls, at which point coaches and students are responsible for complying with NCAA rules of engagement, Mr. Prabhakara says.

WSJ: Competing for Scholarships on the Field and Online

The Conservatives counter by saying that the new schools would have to abide by the old admissions rules, with no interviewing of applicants and no preference for able students.

ECONOMIST: Transforming Britain's schools

Under the new rules, for example, issuers can no longer offer gifts to induce students to sign up for cards.

WSJ: Cards Return to Campus

The city has argued that the tenure rules deny principals the opportunity to choose the teachers they believe will do the best job for their students.

FORBES: Chicago Teachers Suspend Strike -- But Who Won?

The law, named for a Lehigh University student who was murdered on campus in 1986, also toughened rules requiring schools to warn students of possible dangers.

FORBES: Keeping Campus Crime At Bay